Dave MakufkaChief, Innovative Partnerships Program Office – NASA Kennedy Space Center

2008 JUSTSAP - PISCES SymposiumKohala Coast, Island of Hawaii

November 11, 2008

Innovating Space Partnerships

NASA Explores For Answers That Power Our Future

Inspire

Innovate

Discover

Inspiration + Innovation + Discovery = Future

NASA’s Strategic Goals

• Fly the space shuttle as safely as possible until its retirement, not later than 2010.

• Complete the International Space Station in a manner consistent with our international partner commitments and the needs of human exploration.

• Develop a balanced overall program of science, exploration, and aeronautics consistent with the redirection of the human spaceflight program to focus on exploration.

• Bring a new Crew Exploration Vehicle into service as soon as possible after shuttle retirement.

• Encourage the pursuit of appropriate partnerships with the emerging commercial space sector.

• Establish a lunar return program having the maximum possible utility for later missions to Mars and other destinations.

Innovative Partnerships Program

Matching Technology Needs with Technology Capabilities

IPP Partnerships

“The Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) will facilitate partnering with the U.S. private sector, and leverage private sector resources, to produce technologies needed for NASA missions. The IPP and NASA’s Mission Directorates will identify new opportunities to adopt technologies developed through innovative partnerships.”

2006 NASA Strategic Plan

Looking For:• Win-Win-Win

• (NASA-Partner-Taxpayer/Public Good)

• Complementary Interests (1+1>>2)•Common Interests•Compatible Goals•Skin in the Game

What Can IPP Partnerships Provide?

• Funding or Leveraged Resources•NASA SBIR/STTR funds several hundred small businesses •IPP Seed Fund seeks partnerships to leverage resources

with the private sector and other Federal labs•Centennial Challenges offers millions in purses

• Technology and Software•Access through licensing or other partnerships

• Access to Facilities and Test Capabilities•Access to NASA’s facilities through partnerships•Technology demonstration opportunities through FAST

• Expertise•Access to NASA’s technical expertise through partnerships

• Facilitation to enable partnerships• Advocacy as a change agent to try new things

Innovative Partnerships Program Elements

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•Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

•Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR)

•IPP Seed Fund

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•Centennial Challenges

•FAST•Innovation

Transfusion

•New Business Models

PartnershipDevelopmentPartnership

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•Intellectual Property Management

•Technology Transfer

•New Innovative Partnerships

IPP Technology for Mission Directorates

Innovative Partnerships Program

Mission Directorates• Programs• Projects

Technology Needs• Communication

Technology Infusion• Bridging the “Valley

of Death”• Narrow the gap and

reduce risk• Begin building

bridges early

• SBIR/STTR• Centennial Challenges• Seed Fund• Partnerships

Executed at the Field Centers

Executed at the Field Centers

SBIR/STTR: 3-Phase Program

• PHASE I•Feasibility study •$100K award•6 months duration (SBIR) •12 months duration (STTR)

• PHASE II•Technology Development•2-Year Award •Up to $750K (SBIR/STTR)

• PHASE III•Technology Infusion/Commercialization Stage.•Use of non-SBIR Funds.•Ability to award sole-source contracts without JOFOC based on

specific SBIR authority – NASA and NASA primes.

SBIR FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08

Millions of $ 107.3 107.5 110.0 105.6 116.3 103.7

Phase 1 Awards 267 312 291 267 259 TBDPhase 2 Awards 155 139 142 186 130 TBD

STTR FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08

Millions of $ 6.4 12.9 13.2 12.3 13.4 12.5

Phase 1 Awards 45 40 35 27 25 27Phase 2 Awards 18 26 17 22 18 9

SBIR is 2.5% of extramural R&D, STTR is 0.3% of extramural R&D.

SBIR Technology Infusion Examples

ASCII chip for memory modules and analog-to-digital converters.

Lithium-ion batteries for battery packs.

Heat switchesto control radiator for electronics package.

ASCII chip for memory modules and analog-to-digital converters.

Lithium-ion batteries for battery packs.

Heat switchesto control radiator for electronics package.

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IPP Seed Fund Program

• An annual process for selecting innovative partnerships for funding, to address the technology priorities of NASA’s Mission Directorates.

• Enhances NASA’s ability to meet Mission capability goals by providing leveraged funding to address technology barriers via cost-shared, joint-development partnerships.

• The IPP Office at NASA HQ provides an annual Seed Fund Announcement of Opportunity to all NASA Centers for selecting innovative partnerships for funding.

• The technology landscape covered by the successful proposals embraces the needs of all four Mission Directorates.

• Seed Fund operates through a collaboration of Center IPP Offices, NASA co-PI, and external co-PI.

• Proposals are evaluated against the following criteria:•Relevance/Value to NASA Mission Directorates.•Scientific/Technical merit and feasibility.•Leveraging of resources.

Seed Fund Summary (FY06-FY08)

Year# of

Projects Selected

IPP$ (K)

External Partner

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NASA Partner

$ (K)

Total$ (K)

FY06 28 6,382 13,975 6,959 27,316

FY07 38 9,292 12,123 12,402 33,818

FY08 15 3,353 4,958 3,401 11,711

Totals 81 19,027 31,056 22,762 72,845

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FY06 Seed Fund Portfolio

FY07 Seed Fund Portfolio

Lunar Analog Field Demonstrations OfIn-Situ Resource Utilization & Human Robotic Systems

NASA Co-Investigators:William E. Larson, KSC; Gerald B. Sanders & Robert O. Ambrose, JSC

External Partners:Jim Crisafulli (State of Hawaii) – Director, Office of Aerospace Development

Frank Schowengerdt (Univ. of Hawaii) – PISCES Lead

Pilot / Bucketdrum

RESOLVE / Scarab Rover

ROxygen / Cratos

Low-Temperature, Long-Life, CompliantWheels for the Lunar Surface and Beyond

Joshua SummersClemson University

Frank Schowengerdt, Director of PISCES, University of

Hawai'i at Hilo

Jaret Matthews, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Bart Thompson, Michelin Americas Research and

Development Corp.

Tweels on Scarab

Selected Technology Demonstrations

InflatableHuman Habitat

(Human Lunar)

LOX/Methane Flight Demo

(Exploration)

ISHM - TestStand and J2X

Engine (Aries 1 Upper Stage)

CryostableLow-cost Mirror(Deep Space Missions)

FASTRack Experiment Module

(Zero-gravity testing)

Cryo-trackerFlight

Qualification(Atlas/Centaur Launches)

TechnologyDemos

Li-Ion Batteryfor PLSS

(Human EVA)

Funded Centennial Challenge Competitions

Personal Air Vehicle ChallengePersonal Air Vehicle Challenge

Regolith Excavation ChallengeRegolith Excavation Challenge

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Competition Total 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Astronaut Glove

$1M 250 350 400

Regolith Excavation

$750K

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Personal Air Vehicle

$2M 250 300 400 500 550

Beam Power $2M 200 300 400 500 600

Tether $2M 200 300 400 500 600

Lunar Lander $2M 2,000

MoonROx $1M 250 750

Centennial Challenges Highlights

Peter Homer wins $200 K at 2007 Astronaut Glove Challenge

$250K in 2007 and $97K in 2008 awarded at Aviation Technology Challenges

Future Aviation Challenges will focus on unprecedented aircraft efficiency

Peter Homer, now CEO of “Flagsuit LLC” shown here displaying his glove technology to the public at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in July 2008

Centennial Challenges Highlights

16 Teams in San Luis Obispo for the 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge to

compete for $750K in prizesNo winners in 2007 or 2008

Competitors came from 15 different states

Third Power Beaming and Super-Strength Tether Competitions will be held in Early 2009

Multiple competitors expected $2M available in each competition

Power beaming goal will be extended to 1 kilometer

Centennial Challenges Highlights

Third Year of Northop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge - Oct 24-25, 2008Two Teams - Three Vehicles Entered

Armadillo Aerospace Wins $350K for First Prize in Level 1

Armadillo “Mod” vehicle completes two

90-second flights to win Level 1

TrueZer0 Team prepares for Level 1 attempt

Armadillo Team prepares for Level 2

attempt

Centennial Challenges Highlights

Centennial Challenges Highlights

Spinoff from Lunar Lander Challenge

Armadillo Aerospace has recently established a partnership with NASA for testing of their engine with methane fuel. JSC is managing the project and testing will occur at WSTF.

Armadillo Aerospace has a contract to provide rocket engines for the Rocket Racing League - a commercial venture based in New Mexico.

New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardson, discusses the Rocket Racing League during the Lunar Lander Challenge event on October 24, 2008

Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training (FAST)

In September 2008, with support from GRC and JSC, numerous experiments were flown on the Zero-G Corporation aircraft including several selected for the FAST Program earlier in 2008.

• Pneumatic Mining System Under Lunar Gravity ConditionsHoneybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation, New York,

NY• Aircraft SensorLogger

Metis Design Corporation, Cambridge, MA• Microgravity Flight Testing of Passively Self Deploying Roll Stowed Shells

Mevicon Inc., Sunnyvale CA• Virtual Sensor Test Instrumentation

Mobitrum Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland• Nanofluid Coolants

nanoComposix, Inc., San Diego, CA

A broad call for new proposals is planned to support testing for a wide range of new technologies.

FAST Summary

• FAST has the dual objectives of demonstrating the purchase of commercial services from the emerging commercial space sector, and advancing technology maturity through use of those services.

• Should the initial efforts for utilizing commercially-provided services succeed, FAST may extend its services to include other capabilities.

• A priority for NASA is to encourage the development and use of the reusable suborbital flight capability being developed commercially.

• This may offer further opportunities to the commercial space sector and also allow NASA to further achieve its fifth strategic goal.

• The next step is to demonstrate how these services may be utilized by NASA and its partners to increase benefits for all.

• The goal is to eventually extend this model of commercial space service procurement to a standard business practice within NASA, including use of suborbital flight services when they become available.

Intellectual Property Management

• IPP manages all of NASA’s Intellectual Property

• Large inventory of reported inventions and new technologies available for transfer

• Patent application filing (in conjunction with Patent Counsel)

• Marketing of available technologies and identification of potential partners

• Licensing of patents and copyrights for transfer of technology to private sector

•Recent participation in Ocean Tomo IP Auction

• Collection of royalties and reinvestment of funds back into research and technology programs

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Interested in partnering with NASA?

ARC Lisa Lockyer Lisa.L.Lockyer@nasa.gov (650) 604-0149

DFRC Gregory Poteat Gregory.A.Poteat@nasa.gov (661) 276-3872

GRC Kathy Needham Kathleen.K.Needham@nasa.gov (216) 433-2802

GSFC Nona Cheeks Nona.K.Cheeks@nasa.gov (301) 286-8504

JPL Andrew Gray Gray@jpl.nasa.gov (818) 354-4906

JSC Michele Brekke Michele.A.Brekke@nasa.gov (281) 483-4614

KSC Dave Makufka David.R.Makufka@nasa.gov (321) 867-6227

LaRC Brian Beaton Brian.F.Beaton@nasa.gov (757) 864-2192

MSFC Jim Dowdy Jim.Dowdy@nasa.gov (256) 544-7604

SSC Ramona Travis Ramona.E.Travis@nasa.gov (228) 688-1660

Center Name Email Phone

Contact the relevant IPP Center Chief(s):

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

www.nasa.gov